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Drug Literacy in Iran: the Experience of Using “The Single Item Health Literacy Screening (SILS) Tool” Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (2014),13 (supplement): 217-224 Copyright © 2014 by School of Pharmacy Received: November 2013 Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Accepted: December 2013 Original Article Drug Literacy in Iran: the Experience of Using “The Single Item Health Literacy Screening (SILS) Tool” Farzad Peiraviana*, Hamid Reza Rasekha, Hasan Jahani Hashemib, Navid Mohammadic, Nahid Jafarid and Kianoosh Fardie aDepartment of Phamacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Management, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. bDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran. cDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. dHealth Management Network Center, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Iran. eDeputy of Food and Drug, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Abstract Drug and health literacy is a key determinant of health outcomes. There are several tools to assess drug and health literacy. The objective of this article is to determine drug literacy level and its relationships with other factors using a single item screening tool. A cross- sectional survey was conducted among 1104 people in Qazvin province, Iran. Based on the proportional-to-size method, participants over 15 years old with ability to read were recruited randomly from 6 counties in Qazvin province and were interviewed directly. To determine drug literacy relationship with other variables, Chi-Square and t-test were used. Also, logistic regression model was used to adjust the relationship between drug literacy and other relevant variables. Response rate in clusters was 100%. Findings showed that inadequate drug literacy in Qazvin province is 30.3% and it was in association with (1) age (p = .000), (2) marital status (p = .000), (3) educational attainment (p = .000), (4) home county (p = .000), (5) residing area (p = .000), (6) type of basic health insurance (p = .000), (7) complementary health insurance status (p = .000), and (8) family socioeconomic status (p = .000). After adjusting for these variables using logistic regression model, the association between (1), (3), (4), (5) and (8) with drug literacy level was confirmed. The analysis also showed that this method can also be used in other health care settings in Iran for drug and health literacy rapid assessment. Keywords: Drug literacy; Screening tools; Educational status; Health education; Assessment tools. Introduction and services needed to make appropriate health decisions”(1,2,3). Obviousely, besed on health The“health literacy” term was first used in the literacy definition, drug literacy could be defined 1970s . According to The Patient Protection and as a subgroup of health literacy. Affordable Care Act, health literacy is defined as There are some disagreements between “the degree of capacity of individuals to obtain, researchers about the differences between literacy process, and understand basic health information and health literacy and scope of each of them. Some researchers believe that health literacy is * Corresponding author: literacy in the health area, while some others think E-mail:[email protected] that health literacy and literacy are separate (4). Peiravian F et al. / IJPR (2014), 13 (supplement): 217-224 Many studies have shown the prevalence of Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine–Short limited health literacy in countries (5). A study in Form (REALM-SF), Short Assessment of Health the United States found that 14% of the 19,000 Literacy for Spanish Adults (SAHLSA-50), and participants had below basic, 22% had basic, the Medical Terminology Achievement Reading over half (53%) had intermediate, and 12% had Test (MART); proficient health literacy (6). 2- Reading comprehension tests, which are Evidences have shown the relationships mostly used in educational settings; between health literacy and health status; 3- Functional health literacy tests: Test of amount and pattern of use of health services; Functional Health Literacy in Adults knowledge and ability to manage chronic (TOFHLA), and the Newest Vital Sign diseases and adherence to treatment and (NVS); and, medication use (7). It is important to know 4- Informal methods (32). that even after adjusting for some demographic Time is a very important component in variables such as age, gender, race, and socio- assessing health literacy in the health care economic status, the relationships still hold (8, setting. Informal methods are the most common 9, 10 and 11) and are identified well (12). methods to assess health literacy. Usually, they Moreover, evidence has shown the consist of some questions to estimate health relationship between inadequate health literacy level. In comparison with other methods, literacy and utilization pattern of health care they need less time to be utilized (33). Chew and services such as higher use of emergency colleagues (26). defined 3 questions to assess health care services, lower use of preventive inadequate health literacy. Those questions services, difficulties with medication dosages were successful in identifying individuals with and understanding health messages (13,14), poor reading ability in comparison with Short reporting illness and perceptions of illnesses Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults and diseases (15). (S-TOFHLA)(25,34) a gold standard health In medication field, 20- 50% of patients do literacy instrument (33). not take their medication as their physicians The 3 Questions were: have prescribed, which might lead to medication - “How confident are you in filling out medical nonadherence. Inadequate health literacy had forms by yourself?”, been considered as one of the most important - “How often do you have someone help you key factors for medication nonadherence (16). read hospital materials?”, and More than half of patients with inadequate - “How often do you have problems in health literacy could not understand medicines learning about your medical condition instruction correctly (17). Misinterpretation of because of difficulty in understanding written prescription drug labels is doubled in patient information?” with low literacy (8). Patients select 1 of 5 responses ranging from On the other hand, individuals with adequate 1- Never to 5- Always (26, 32, 35). health literacy can use their skills of reading, Wallace and colleagues suggested that 1 numeracy, and writing, for health-related question of these 3 questions might be sufficient subjects within the health-care settings (18). for detecting limited and marginal health literacy Strong link between education and health has (23). led researchers to focus on reading skills and Morris and colleagues designed a single health related outcomes like health knowledge, question,“How often do you need to have someone medication adherence, and hospitalization rates help you when you read instructions, pamphlets, (19, 20). or other written material from your doctor or There are many tools to assess health literacy pharmacy?”, to assess poor literacy level. They (8, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31) found that this method can assess limited health The main categories of these tools are: literacy moderately well in comparison with 1- Word recognition tests: Wide Range TOFHLA as gold standard (33). Jeppsen and Achievement Test–Revised (WRAT-R), Rapid colleagues found that the above question is one 218 Health Literacy in Iran: The Experience of Using “The Single Item Health of the measures that can independently predict literacy screening sensitivity. Scores greater limited health literacy (29). than 2 were considered positive, which meant Most studies in assessing health literacy are participant had inadequate drug literacy. To conducted in English speaking countries and it assess socioeconomic status of participants, is essential to assess this subject in non- English a questionnaire with 30 items, was used. The countries as well. The purpose of this study is to data was analyzed using Principle Component assess drug literacy level in Qazvin province in Analysis (PCA) method (36, 37, 38 and 39) Iran. The Single Item Literacy Screener (SILS) Then participants were categorized in 3 groups, method was used to do this study. (weak, moderate, and good), based on their socioeconomic status. Experimental The results were analyzed using SPSS.V.16.0. Descriptive analyses were used to calculate Materials and methods frequencies and Chi-square test was used to This study was a part of a larger project, a examine the relationship between qualitative survey of “Pattern of Utilization of Drug and variables while t-test was used for quantitative Pharmaceutical Services”. Data was collected variables. To determine the final associations from a random sample (based on proportional between drug literacy level and effective to size method) of 1104 participants from both variables, logistic regression model was used. rural and urban areas in 6 counties (Qazvin, Takestan, Alborz, Abyek, Boeen- Zahra, and Results Avaj) in Qazvin province during April 7 to June8, 2013. A questionnaire was designed 1104 individuals participated in this survey to collect demographic data (county, gender, who lived in 6 counties in Qazvin province: age, residing area, marital status, education, (Qazvin (584),Takestan(114), Boeen-Zahra job, basic and complementary insurance, (85), Alborz(217), Abyek(86), and Avaj(18). family
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